Microsurgeon
Platform: TI-99/4A
Region: USA
Media: Cartridge
Controller: Keyboard
Genre: Action - Strategy
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1983
Developer: Imagic
Publisher: Imagic
Players: 1
Programmer: Rick Levine
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You're a microsurgeon, and your patient is in critical condition! First you need to examine the patient's medical chart to find out what's wrong, and which conditions are the most critical. Now to save the patient, you control a robot probe which can be used to administer aspirin, antiseptic, or ultrasonics to clear up the problem. You should clear up the most critical conditions first, then move on to the less serious areas to ensure your patient survives. Your probe should navigate through the veins, arteries, and lymph; if you guide the probe outside these areas, it's movement will slow down and swarms of white blood cells will attack it, depleting the limited energy supply. There are 197 different patients you need to help, each with different ailments.

Trivia:

This game is a port of the original Intellivision version from 1982. Both the TI-99/4A and Intellivision versions were programmed by Rick Levine. 

There is one known Easter Egg in this game, if you listen to the voice that comes across during gameplay it sometimes will say "Paging Doctor Levine". Doctor Levine being Rick Levine, the programmer of the game. 

Programmer Rick Levine had the following to say about Microsurgeon: "As you noted, the audio and the hospital room graphic were the main additions from the Intellivision version. As in the Intellivision version, there is a tiny graphic in the game that spells out "Rick". That's about it. I remember enjoying programming for the TI....Adding the speech was lots of fun, and I would have liked programming more games on the TI, but that didn't work out."
 

http://www.mobygames.com/game/ti-994a/microsurgeon
